Improvement in wagon-axles



UNITED STATns ATENT @Brien VILLIAMvA. LEVIS, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

||v| PROVENIENTy IN WAGON-AMES.

specification forming part of Letters Patent No. ioaeoe, mea october is, m0.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A Lwis, of Joliet,'in Vill county,.and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement ,on VVagon-Axles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exaet description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making apart of thisspecification, in which the figure is a longitudinal sectional View of thesarne.

The invention relates to the construction of that class of wagon-axles denominated tubular axles,77 which I will proceed to explain.

A is a tubular axle, with the end which passes into the spindle tapered, as shown, onto and over the end of Whiclris driven the hollow spindle or skein B, which may be fastened permanently by bolts, or may be .shrunk on while hot. lThis skein or spindle B may be vconstructed of any suitable metal. It also has a plug Welded or otherwise fastened into the end, as shown, for the nut which holds the wheel on.

The necessary pitch and gather is given to the spindle B by bending the axle at or near the inner end of said spindle in any degree it f may be desired.- I 'i Having thus described niy invention, lwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows: e

The combination of thehollow tapered spin.

dle B .and plug C with the hollow tapered axle A, bent to give the necessary pitch and gather to the spindle B, constructed and arranged as and for the purposes set forth.

XV. A. LEWIS.

Witnesses:

THOMAS' C. CoNNoLLY, F. A. LEHMANN. 

